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Last updated: 2 July 2026 · Written by the KGS team. KGS is an NEA-licensed e-waste recycler, founded in Singapore in 2016.
TakeBag is a free e-waste recycling service for Singapore households, run by NEA-licensed recycler KGS. Order a bag online, fill it with old phones, laptops, cables and chargers at home, then drop it into any of 1,100+ Pick! parcel lockers islandwide. Data-bearing devices are wiped or destroyed at KGS's facility. Users rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 77 published reviews.
Every home in Singapore has the drawer. The one with three retired phones, a tangle of mystery cables, a power bank that stopped holding charge in 2022, and a laptop you keep meaning to deal with. You know it shouldn't go in the rubbish chute. You are just not sure what should happen to it instead, and the answer has never felt worth a special trip.
That drawer is why we built TakeBag.
TakeBag is a sturdy green bag that KGS sends to your mailbox, free, so you can recycle e-waste without leaving your neighbourhood. More than 46,000 TakeBags have been distributed so far, and the e-waste inside them comes straight to our NEA-licensed recycling facility in Tuas, where devices are screened, stripped of data, and broken down into materials that get a second life.
There are only three steps:
Order your free TakeBag at takebag.kgs.com.sg. It arrives in your mailbox within 3–5 working days.
Fill it at your own pace. Phones, laptops, tablets, cables, chargers, power banks, keyboards, mice, earphones: the small stuff that accumulates. (No swollen batteries, please.)
Drop it at any Pick! locker. There are over 1,100 across Singapore, at HDB void decks, MRT stations and supermarkets. For most HDB residents that is a 3–5 minute walk. Scan, get a PIN by SMS, place the bag, done.
No queues, no opening hours, no awkward trip to move one dead laptop. The locker network is open whenever you are.
We could tell you TakeBag is convenient, but we make the thing, so here is what people who have used it say instead. These are what actual users are telling us.
"Super convenient way to recycle ewaste. Wish more people know about it!" — Lim Mei Ling, December 2025
"I had accumulated a lot of old IT equipment and mobile devices that I hesitate to drop into the recycling box as I do not know if the items can be securely disposed. Takebag alleviates this problem by providing a convenient and secure way of disposing such equipment in a sustainable manner." — Carrie Chan, February 2026
"KGS TakeBag has really taken the friction out of e-waste recycling. Free bags, easy deposit/collection at Pick lockers - and most importantly, minimal restrictions on what can be recycled so you don't need to hunt down bins for various categories of e-waste and lug stuff around." — Yarns, May 2026
"Being able to deposit my stuff in the picklockers whenever convenient and declutter at my own pace is great. I send my computers, harddrives and phones to them as I don't really trust e-waste bins outside." — Angie, April 2026
"I did not realise it is so easy to recycle and save the Earth." — Alex, May 2026
Not every review is a love letter, and we read the critical ones the closest. Users have asked for bigger bags, fewer steps at the locker, and feedback on what they deposited. Fair points, all three, and they are shaping what we build next.
The reviews above keep circling one theme: trust. An old laptop holds your photos, passwords and tax returns, and dropping it into an unattended public bin means trusting whatever happens after.
A TakeBag is different. It travels sealed and barcode-registered, sits in a PIN-secured locker, and is opened at one place only: our facility in Tuas. Working laptops are screened for donation. Everything else goes through data destruction, hard drives are degaussed to NSA standards, while SSDs, phones and tablets are shredded. The full process is on our FAQ page.
TakeBag started as a bag. It is turning into a community habit, and the campaigns so far have taught us that Singaporeans will recycle enthusiastically when someone makes it easy and slightly competitive.
The HowManyKGS challenge. In late 2025 we asked one question: how many kilograms of e-waste can Singapore recycle together? Two months later, the answer was over 2,500kg from 800 TakeBag orders. The campaign winner personally cleared out an astonishing 751kg. Participants posted more than 20 videos of their recycling hauls, racking up over 100,000 views, with local influencer @aimrun joining in to show how it works.
17,000 doors in Zhenghua. Together with the Zhenghua grassroots community, we put a free TakeBag in the hands of every household in the estate — 17,000 doors in the west of Singapore.
14,000 bags in Tanjong Pagar–Tiong Bahru. The programme then expanded to Tanjong Pagar and Tiong Bahru, putting another 14,000 bags into one of Singapore's most community-minded districts.
Lunar New Year spring cleaning. Ahead of CNY 2026, Channel 8 News featured how Singaporeans are folding e-waste recycling into their annual spring clean. The drawer gets cleared, the hongbao karma gets banked.
Recycling Rush, the game. We even built a browser game, TakeBag Recycling Rush, where you sort e-waste against the clock. It is harder than it sounds, and you will come out knowing exactly what belongs in the bag.
TakeBag has also been covered by Lianhe Zaobao and Vulcan Post, which told the story of how KGS grew from one borrowed van in Ang Mo Kio into one of Singapore's leading integrated e-waste recyclers.
The honest answer: we are just getting started. More estates, more campaigns, more reasons to finally deal with the drawer. The next community challenge will be announced on our socials first, and if HowManyKGS is anything to go by, you will want to be early.
Follow along and be first in line:
Or skip straight to the good part: order your free TakeBag today. The drawer is not going to clear itself.
KGS TakeBag — homepage and FAQ (service details, locker count, bags distributed, data destruction methods)
KGS TakeBag — HowManyKGS campaign results
KGS TakeBag — Tanjong Pagar–Tiong Bahru expansion
Judge.me published review export, December 2025 – June 2026 (77 reviews, 4.8/5 average)
Vulcan Post — How this trio built one of S'pore's biggest e-waste firms
Yes. The bag, the delivery to your mailbox, the locker drop-off and the recycling are all free for Singapore residents. There is a limit of two bags per order so everyone gets a fair share. You can order again after you complete depositing of your filled bags.
Small household electronics: phones, laptops, tablets, cables, chargers, power banks, keyboards, mice, earphones, cameras and similar items. The filled bag must fit a Pick! locker compartment. email ask@kgs.com.sg about those instead. The full list is here.
Seven days from receiving your locker slot confirmation by SMS or email.
Bags are sealed, tracked and opened only at KGS's NEA-licensed facility, where hard drives are degaussed and SSDs, phones and tablets are shredded. If you can, sign out of your accounts and do a factory reset before bagging — belt and braces.
Working laptops are screened first. Some of those that meet the criteria are prepared for donation; the rest are recycled with data destroyed.
TakeBag is for households. For office equipment, KGS runs separate commercial e-waste and ITAD services with certificates of data destruction.
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